SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:14
Después de esto envió David mensajeros a Is-boset hijo de Saúl, diciendo: Restitúyeme a mi mujer Mical, la cual yo desposé conmigo por cien prepucios de filisteos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 3:14
Verse 14. Deliver me my wife] It is supposed that he meant to screen Abner; and to prevent that violence which he might have used in carrying off Michal.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son , etc.] When Abner’s messengers returned to him, and acquainted him with the condition of David’s entering into a league with him, it is highly probable that Abner sent them or others to David, to let him know that he could not do this of himself; that it was advisable for him to write to Ishbosheth, whose sister she was, and demand her of him; and that then he would use his interest with Ishbosheth to grant it, and this method David took: saying, deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines ; two arguments he made use of to enforce his demand; one is, that it was his wife he required, to whom he had a right, and no other man; and the other is, that he had purchased her at a great expense, at the risk of his life, in slaying an hundred Philistines, whose foreskins he paid in for her at the instance of Saul; he mentions but one hundred, though he gave two hundred as her dowry, no more being required than one hundred; (see 1 Samuel 18:25,27). Josephus very wrongly says six hundred f54 ; the Syriac and Arabic have here two hundred.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-21 - Many, like Abner, are not above committing base crimes, who are to proud to bear reproof, or even the suspicion of being guilty. While me go on in sin, and apparently without concern, they are often consciou that they are fighting against God. Many mean to serve their ow purposes; and will betray those who trust them, when they can get an advantage. Yet the Lord serves his own designs, even by those who ar thus actuated by revenge, ambition, or lust; but as they intend not to honour him, in the end they will be thrown aside with contempt. Ther was real generosity both to Michal and to the memory of Saul, in David's receiving the former, remembering probably how once he owed his life to her affection, and knowing that she was separated from his partly by her father's authority. Let no man set his heart on tha which he is not entitled to. If any disagreement has separated husban and wife, as they expect the blessing of God, let them be reconciled and live together in love.
Original Hebrew
וישׁלח 7971 דוד 1732 מלאכים 4397 אל 413 אישׁ בשׁת 378 בן 1121 שׁאול 7586 לאמר 559 תנה 5414 את 853 אשׁתי 802 את 853 מיכל 4324 אשׁר 834 ארשׂתי 781 לי במאה 3967 ערלות 6190 פלשׁתים׃ 6430
